The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 30, 1925, Page 5

Cd i en EZRA POUND WINS PRESIDENCY OF WIS, UNIVERSITY Was MeN A alll Foe of Palmer’s Red Raids (Special to The Dally Worker) MADISON, Wisc., Jan, 28—Liberal ascendancy. in the university of Wis- consin after the war years of reaction is signalized by the election of Roscoe Pound, dean of the Harvard law school, to the university presidency at Madison. Pound was one of the 12 lawyers of national reputation who in 1920 called public attention to the illegal prac tices of the department of justice ir its read raids under Mitchell Palmer. “Under the guise of a campaign for the suppression of radical activity,” said Pound and his associates, “the office of the attorney general, acting by its local agents thruout the country, and giving express instruc tions from Washington, has commit- ted continued illegal acts. Wholesale arrests, both of aliens and citizens, have been made without warrant or any process of law; men and women have been jailed and held incommun- ‘| cado ‘without access of friends or counsel; homes have been entered without search warrants and property seized and removed; other property has been wantonly destroyed, working men and working women suspected of radical views have been shamefully abused and maltreated.” Spring’s Invasion of Harlem to Be Met by Big Dance Festival NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 28.—Satur- day evening, March 21, is Harlem eve- ning. Everything else must be set aside. The Harlem Engish branch of the Workers Party will hold a spring festival and dance on that evening Hold that date open for the great event. Tourist parties to Harlem are welcome. Fair guides will be on hand. Anyone who has never been in Har. lem before should not miss this op portunity. Thére is no place like Har lem. The racés and nationalities ‘of the world are well represented in Har Jem and they will all be at the dance. The Chinese laundrymen will let their help off early that evening. The Ne- gtoes will be at the dance from the black belt. There will be Russians, Letts, Greeks, Hungarians and what. Ses will be provided. Those who can’t dance can talk A good talker is as good as a good dancer. And there is a whole lot tc talk about nowadays even tho the party discussion is closed. The gayest, the most colorful event of the year will take place Saturday evening, March 21, at the Harlem Cas. ino, Lenox avenue and 116th street in the heart of Harlem. E, W. RIECK LUNCH ROOM: Seven Places ’ 62 W. Van Buren 42 W. Harrison 169 N. Clark 118 S. Clark 66 W. Washington | 167 N. State - 234 8. Halsted PHONES, HARRISON 8616-7 3: &. W, Rieck Boston Baked ins and Brown Bread ind Fresh Made Coffee mmisgary and Bakery: 1612 Fulton Ct. Phone West 2549 SBE ees . THE DAILY WORKER FINANCIAL WRITER CALLS ALL EUROPEANS, EXCEPT RUSS, “OUR BONDED SLAVES, SERFS” % (Special-to The Daily Worker) NEW ‘YORK “CITY, Jan. 28.—That the Dawes’ plan upon Germany and the financial talons of Americacn banks upon the rest of Hurope have raised the United States to the position of the most powerful imperialism in his- tory, is frankly admitted, and the whole population of Burope with the exception of Russia, called “America’s bonded slaves”—such is the swagger- ing truth poured out by Edward Da-#——————————_________— kin writing in a Wall Street magazine called Commerce and Finance. Europe “Our” Slave Colony. Quite frankly he states that Ameri- ca is the ruler of the world—except Soviet Russia! That the hundreds of millions of European peoples are bond slaves, serfs, to American cap- italist imperialism. Only on one point does he deceive and distort: He claims that the wealth of gold or merchandise which will pour into America from Europe, will be used by “every one of us,” and will benefit all the people of America, Will Enrich Only the Rich. Yet everyone knows that only the capitalist bankers and industrial over- lords will become ‘still richer, while the workers of America will become poorer and will be compelled, unless they join in an international over- throwal of capitalism, to accept low- er wages and worse conditions just because they will have to compete with driven “bond slaves of Europe.” Dakin’s article, in part is as follows: “As the world slips into 1925, we have all become—every one of us— the owners of hundreds of millions of able-bodied serfs. We have a mortgage on the lives both of the liv- ing and the unborn in practically every nation of Europe except Russia. And “Our” Merchandise Producers? “We shall have, if not gold pouring in, then its equivalent in merchandise. We can waste it, individually, in vain and effete living, as every great em- pire has finally wasted its resource: in the past; or else, utilizing the mod- ern invention called capitalism, we can mass it in ways that will enable us to remake the whole human environ- ment—to remold the entire world to the heart’s desire, “With money—and the labor of bonded slaves,” Union Can Regulate Overtime—But Why Not Abolish It? (Special to The Daily, Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 28.—A limit to overtime has been set by the Full Fashioned Hosiery Knitters’ Un- jon, Local :206,---No-shep--where the union has control may work an oper. ative more than one hour overtime Per day nor more than five hours overtime a week, with a maximum yearly overtime limit of 40 hours. Explaining the new rules Gustav Geiges, head of the local organiza- tion, said that excessive overtime ex- hausts the workers, impairing their health and lowering their efficiency. At the same time the general ban on overtime regulates competition among manufacturers, Dad Must Sweat For by. SACRAMENTO, Cal—The Califor. nia supreme court has decided, in the test case of Lloyd Swiggy, that pre natal contracts relieving the father of the support of an unborn child ar illegal and void. Swiggy and his wife signed an agreement exempting him of legal responsibility for the care of the child about to be born to them. WORKERS NEED HOLIDAY AFTER FOUR WORK DAYS, SAYS NOTED SCIENTIST (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Jan, 28—Highest industrial efficiency will not come until the four day working week prevails, Walter N. Polakov, noted industrial engineer, declared in leo turing on Wastes in Industry at the Rand School. Polakov would revise the calen- dar, replacing the seven day week with one of five days of which four would be devoted to work and one to rest and recreation. His program is based on fatigue studies which show that after the firet two working days the workers’ energy wanes day by day, reaching lowest levels on Friday and Satur. day. Polakov, now a consulting engin- eer, was formerly chief power en- gineer for the New York, New Ha- ven and Hartford Railroad. CHILD SLAVES BY THOUSANDS IN COTTON MILLS S. C. Works Them From Cradle to Grave By JACK METTE (Federated Press Staff. Correspondent) COLUMBIA, S. C.—South.Carolina’s legislature has voted millions of dol- lars for education in the same session that saw the federal child labor amendment rejected by unanimous vote. The state spends money on Schools and teachers but herds thou- sands of its children into the cotton fields and mills. i Nearly $10,000,000 was appropriated for state expenses, much of which went to education. The schools are in fine. a Millions have been spent for roads on which children could go to school; but they are used instead to transport children into the factories. A visit to some of South Carolina’s large cotton mills, where children 10 and 12 years of age are employed, though claiming to be 14 shows the need of government. regulation of child labor. In South Carolina, “the cotton mill state,” the masses work from the cradle to the grave. York. @ matinee performance, dialogue between Candida’s husband, Rey. James Mavor Morell, and her father, a cotton manufacturer. Tle clergyman, interested in the cause of the workers, asks why those who produce wealth shouldn’t enjoy it as much as those who spend it. The manufacturer thinks his son-in-law crazy, but admits that he has had to raise wages for his girls in order to get county councils’ contracts be the workers were strong enough to use political pressure. p Clare Eames, called the “perfect Prossy” (devoted stenographer to the reverend), has been forced to leave the cast by illness but Elizabeth Pat- terson plays the part with just the uncertain, shrill voice and wry humor (particularly after her first champagne party) it needs, Candida (Katherine Vornell) is glowing with sympathetic understanding. The curate is fussy and foolish as he should be and the young, supersensitive peer who ex- Bird. The Actors’ Theatre's first produc » [tion of the season, “The Habitual Hus- to the DAILY WORKER, 1118 os thru are ophecue 2 re y the mane band,” by Dana Burnett, was not wel) received by public and critics, altho well acted. It did fulfill one of the aims of the actors’ union group: “giv an important native writer his by Michel Carre, musio by Andre Wormeer, will be the next play of the Actors’ Theatre, to be followed by “The Subway,” of Elmer Rice, author of “The Adding Machin Ask Amnesty for 7,000 Politicals, BERLIN.—-On the first Sunday in January, 20,000 Berlin workers demon- strated for amnesty for the 7,000 poli- German jails, ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION PRODUCING PLAYS BY ITSELF WITH ALL-STAR UNION CAST NEW YORK, Jan. 28.—The Actors’ sponsored by Actors’ Equity Association, is presenting @ delightful revival of George Bernard Shaw's comedy “Candida” at the 48th Street Theatre, New . Carrying out the actors’ union Players’ policy the production is all-star and has proven so successful that it has become a regular instead of merely The growing power of English workers is in the background of this play, written over 20 years ago. There are many good. lines, especially in the LEGION BOASTS IT WILL CONTROL PUBLIC SCHOOLS Civic Club Members Is Told How Its Done NEW YORK, Jan. 28.—Having ob- tained the rank of dictator to the Am- erican workers as to political opin- ions, and having lined up the capital- ists in the matter of strikebreaking— and still having the friendliest terms with the American Federation of La- bor—the American legion considers itself called upon to direct the Am- erican schools. Civic Club Entertains Legionite. At the Civic Club on Jan. 24, Rob- ert G. Paterson, commander of the New York county American legion declared that the right of the Ameri- ean legion to know what is going on in education is unquestioned. “As gooa citizens who came to the aid of the country when it needed us we arc bound to be interested in education, without which there can be no gov- ernment. In the war we learned that the greatest killing can be done with Propaganda, Since the war, some propaganda has been most inimical to the best interests of the country. It has crept into places where it can do a great deal of harm. The Ameri- can legion believes in simon-pure, 100 per cent Americanism.” Capitalist Propaganda, Yes. We agree with the commander that Propaganda “has crept into places where {ft can do a great deal of harm.” When this 100 per cent Americanism is taught to children, when enmity to the labor movement is instilled in their minds, when they are taught to hate the things that their fathers are struggling for, then it IS doing a great deal of harm. When the movies, the press, the school and the church are used to spread the vilest propaganda against the trade unions, against the unem- ployed, who are depicted as “lazy bums,” we agree with the commander that the “greatest killing can be done with propaganda.” “Looney Gas” Still , Marketed for Profit In New York State ALBANY, N. Y. —The state health council advertises the fact that gas- oline treated with tetraethyl. lead or “Jooney gas” may be legally sold in New. York state, beginning March 1. Only ‘the: treated gasoline, not the “looney gas” itself may be sold. Five workers were recently killed in the Standard Oi] company plant at Bayway, N. J., while working with the gas and scientific opinion is divided as to the safety with which even at- tentuated’ portions of it, mixed with gasoline, can be used. Organized labor was active in se- curing the banning of such treated gasoline, following the Bayway dis- aster. Theatre, successor to Equity Players, Page Five <a BUILD FERS AT WO —) K a " Every day under this head you will learn not only what BUILDERS thruout the country are doing to build a greater newspaper, but also practical suggestions to accomplish more for OUR paper. doing—and we will ‘teil the world.” Tell us what YOU are We Tell A Little Secret. E asked all our agents what they thought of a credit plan we ini- tiated to make the work of sub-getting easier. and why shoudn't they? Most of the: They all liked it, m already had it in practice on their own responsibility. “Old stuff” they told us—and now read what Comrade Harvitt of Toledo, has to say: “Your credit plan is on the same order as the plan | have been using for the entire past year. “I anticipated exactly at the start about the difficulty | would experl- ence and which | have experienced in approaching a person who was not acquainted very well with me and always extended credit to such people and others who asked. “When | took the job as secretary of The DAILY WORKER committee to boost the paper and secure subscriptions, even before | was elected DAILY WORKER agent | started In on the credit plan at once. | had a little nest egg in a capitalist bank and drew out this egg which amounted to $150 and | have turned this money over several times until it has furnished credit to the extent of $520.00 without using the credit that was offered by the DAILY WORKER office. “Some of this credit | carried 30 days, some 60 days and some 6 months before | was able to collect it. to collect at all, however, my commii pens ittached to the office of DAI and other incidentals.” In quite a few instances | was not able issions covered my losses and my ex- LY WORKER agent such as carfare And in another letter Comrade Harvitt tells us he lost only two dollare during the year. It’s easy to see our credit plan will be a great success, And now we are going to tell a little secret. We put the plan into opera- tion simply because we learned that we are taking the responsibility. it already was a success—only now, WORKERS OF NEW YORK WILL RENEW PLEDGE THAT THE SPIRIT OF LENIN WILL NEVER DIE By JULIUS CODKIND, NEW YORK, Jan. (Special to the DAILY WORKER) 28.—Sunday, February 1, we workers of New York will gather in Madison Square Garden to pay our respects to the memory of our great leader who, tho termed dead, remains with us in spirit. The iron will of Lenin guided the Russian masses to victory over the bourgeoisie, and during the moments of the greatest danger to the revolution, © SESE ES TENTS ENE that iron will inspired its defenders to renewed struggle and ultimate vic- tory. Inspired World's Workers. With the same fron will, he inspired the revolutionary workers in all cor- ners of the world to organize against capitalist oppression, imbuing them with his own determination to carry on—on to the dictatorship of the pro. letariat; and when the human frame, sapped of its vitality by the assassin’s poisoned bullet, crumpled and worn, left us, there yet remained inestiiled in our beings, the courage, the determin- ation, the resolution, the iron will to conquer the world and its resources for the working class. Lenin Still Lives. Lenin, called dead, lives in us. Len- in called dead, pervades our beings, and guides us in all the cities of all of lands and climates, to gather and demonstrate our strength and solidar- ity. Already, Lenin, the man, is being widely recognized as one of the hand. ful of the greatest men of all time To us he stands the greatest. We are the bearers of his living spirit; jour neying to Madison Square Garden on Sunday, February 1, at 2 o'clock, there to give it life. nALEOAUCS TERATORE pun Ss Giana oer ee |3ERMAN GOVT, ‘DISTURBED’ BY ALLIED CHARGE Calls Allies’ Bluff on Cologne Evacuation (Special to the Dally Worker) BERLIN, Jan. 28—Conditions are being “gravely disturbed” by the ac- tion of the allies in “raising charges without detailing or proving them,” Germany will reply to the allies’ lat- est note on the subject of the Cologne occupation, it was said today in dip- lomatic circles. Germany’s answer will go forward late today, it was stated. : The formal note which was handed to Chancellor Luther yesterday by the British ambassador has aroused what the press terms “keen resentment” among the German people. It said nothing more, it was pointed out, than that the allies would not discuss the Cologne situation with the German government until the final report of the military control commission is complete. The German note will argue, it was said, that the failure to evacuate Cologne would be “excusable only, if France was threatened with an unpro- voked attack, and there is not the slightest cause to suspect this.” THE BEAUTY AND THE BOLSHEVIK Did you ever see how the fire is |made in a samovar? The soldier knows how. He removes a boot and uses it instead of.a hellows.. Come and see how it is done in “The Beauty and Bolshevik” to be shown at Ashland Auditorium and Yan Bu- ren, Thursday, Feb. 6, from 7 to 11 PD. m. continuously. Latune Be Last; teres pr Mis By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN. “EDORIS GODUNOV” was the semi- wind-up performance of the sea- son given by the Chicago Civic opera company at the Auditorium last Sat- urday afternoon. “Boris Godunov” is a three act opera by Modest Musorg- ski, based on a play by Pushkin, which in turn is a dramatization of actual Capitalism’s Tools Vorowsky’s murderer, who waskw quitted by the White Guards courts of Switzerland, has come to the fore again. Me has just been sentenced to a “nominal” sentence of one month's imprisonment for threatening a girl with a revolver, AND IMMEDIATELY RELEASED. These degenerate and putrid agents of capitalism are protected by the cap- italist courts, no matter what their crimes, Expel Pacemakers from Union. The Australian Railways Union is combatting the piecework and bonus systems recently put tnto operation by the railway commissioners at the shops at Melbourne. Members of the union who accept bonuses for speed work are expelled. Open Forum, Sunday Night, Lodge Room, Ashland Auditorium, — facts. The Tsar Feodor, who ruled from 1584 to 1598, was an imbecile, and his brother-in-law, Boris Godunov, acted as regent for him. Feodor had two sons, one an idiot, one a normal child. Godunov has the normal boy, Dimitri, killed by Prince Shuiski. Boris Ascends Throne. ki’ Feodor’s death. Boris ascends the throne. He is reluctant to do so at first. The first scene of the first act shows the populace of Moscow pray- ing for him to become czar. The second scene of the same act is in the cell of the monk Pimen. The old monk is writing a history of the misdeeds of Boris Godunoy. He tells @ young man, Gregory by name, how Boris had killed Dimitri. Gregory cooks up a scheme to go to Lithuania and to Poland, attract a following, march on Moscow and depose Boris claiming to be Dimitri. The last scene of the act shows the pageantry and pomp attendant on the coronation of Boris, Boris Has Rivals. The Kremlin. Boris is troubled by dreams of the murdered Dimitri, Shui- ski tells him that the false Dimitri’s following is growing and that the throne of the czar is unsafe if Gregory once crosses the border. Shuiski swears UNCLE WIGGILY’S TRICKS to Boris that the real Dimitri was actually killed, Left alone, Boris is unnerved and frightened by a noise in an adjoining room. Theodore, the tsarevitch, tells him that the servants are playing with a parrot, causing the noise. The forest of Kromy. The peasants rise in revolt against Boris. They hang the noble of the district, a vassal of Boris. Varlaam and Missail enter sing- ing the praises of “Dimitri.” Two Jesuits also sing the praises of the pretender, but the peasants will have nothing to do with jesuits. “Dimitri” himself comes by with his troops, with the enthusiastic greeting of the peas- ants. The Duma has assembled in the Kremlin to depose Boris. Boris enters, and is told by Pimen how a peasant had been cured of blindness by visit- ing the tomb of Dimitri. Boris dismis- ses the Duma, sends for his son, talks to him a long while, and dies as the Duma reassembles, pointing to his son as the future Tsar. Plot of “Macbeth” Similar. It is strange how sometimes these happenings and plots will reappear It is doubtful whether William Shakes peare ever heard of Boris Godunov. Yet the plot of his “Macbeth” is ident- ical with this episode of Russian his- tory, and to make the thing more start ling, “Macbeth” was written in 1606, one year after the death of Boris Go- dunoyv, , It is a strange score to which Mu- sorgski set this story. A strange score, and a living and stirring one. The great choruses, notably that of the first act, with their vague, mystical, thoroly Slavonic melodic lines, show clearly the effect of the liturgical choruses of the Russian church upon Musorgsk!. The scene between Marina and Gregory is queerly out of place, It is a page borrowed from Italian opera. It is very good Italian opera, tho, much better than anything old man Verdi could concoct. Any aria, dance tune or whatnot in “Boris Go- dunov,” except for the one scene just referred to, is first, thoroly Russian, second thoroly Musorgski. And Mu- sorgski, tho a military officer by pro- fession, a drunkard by vocation and a musical genius from some interior, unexplainable compulsion, wrote music that is ene with the hopeless, the de- feated and the ghost ridden of the earth, Chaliapin sang the part of Boris, which means there is nothing more to be said. The rest of the cast ranged from excellent to very bad. Gladys Swarthout as the czarevitch was an admirable second to the principal Chaliapin, The rest of the principals were some of them good, some not good. There was excellent work on the parts of Hduard Soutreuil as Varlaam, Maria Claessens as the nurse of the czare- vitch, Douglas Stanbury as the secret- ary of the Duma, and Virgilio Lavzari as Pimen. Antonio Cortis as Gregory and Au- gusta Lenska as Marina were indiffer- ently bad, Romeo Boscacci as the vil- lage idiot in the forest scene was very bad. It is Chaliapin of course, who puts the opera over, His performance is the ultimate in operatic work. Only Mary Garden, in the role of Salome, can come anywhere near him, A LAJGH FOR THE CHILDREN “This will fool “Where did M Uncle Wiggily ge ?